European intellectual history from Rousseau to Nietzsche

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Title:

European intellectual history from Rousseau to Nietzsche

Author:

Turner, Frank M. (Frank Miller), 1944-2010.

Personal Author:

Turner, Frank M. (Frank Miller), 1944-2010.

Publication Information:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Physical Description:

xiii, 302 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

Turner's lectures "distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures." --Dust jacket.

Language:

English

Contents:

Rousseau's challenge to modernity -- Tocqueville and liberty -- J.S. Mill and the nineteenth century -- The turn to subjectivity -- Medievalism and the invention of the Renaissance -- Nature historicised -- Darwin and creation -- Marx and the transcendent working class -- The cult of the artist -- Nationalism -- Race and anti-Semitism -- Wagner -- The ideology of separate gender spheres -- Old faiths and new -- Nietzsche.

Subject Term:

Civilization, Western -- History -- 18th century.

Civilization, Western -- History -- 19th century.

Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.

Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century.

HISTORY -- Civilization.

Civilization, Western. (OCoLC)fst00863138

Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769

Philosophy, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01061071

Geestesgeschiedenis. (NL-LeOCL)078513928

Geographic Term:

Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.